Moyes not optimistic on signings

If you ain't got the money, you ain't got the money (regardless of how much in debt we are). Frustrating? Embarrassing? Yes.... Can we do anything about it? Unlikely......

Maybe this is a simplistic look at it, but I see very little risk in doing this with the potential for great reward.

Over to you Uncle Bill.....

Fuck them. I know we're well below par at the moment but well turn it around. Jela will come good. In my opinion, we need Odidja-Ofoe and that's it.

Everton live within the means at their disposal. It's a bitter pill to swallow but there it is. It's still a squad full of internationals earning big money as much as people love to peddle their conspiracy theories.

We are a big Premier League club getting outspent by a bunch of no-mark also-rans. There are plenty of players out there who have only six months of their contract remaining and would cost minimal fees. It's a joke.

Because we will spend no money in this window means settling for around 7th place with the Shite almost certainly above us... What`s new about that scenario?

Another thing: there are a few players out there, the boy from West Ham who has a £3.5M buy-out clause... peanuts, for fuck sake — especially when we're getting extra cash from TV next season. If we were supposed to have bid £6.5M just last week for a player then why not now?

I'm fucking sick of getting so close and the board not going the last leg. If it means selling to improve then sell Fellaini and Baines for £50M and rebuild them two re not the be all and end all. I'm sure there are players just as good if not better out there.

I think we need to go hunting for the next Cahill, Baines, Arteta, or Pienaar – by that I mean, good players in the Championship, lower league bargains and misfits to make a home for – respectively, you may not. We can’t be so cautious that we don’t spend, but risking the pot on a big name is luxury that we can no longer afford. Saying, I was disappointed that we lost M’Vila and Holtby.

Hummmmmm... the more you look at it, it’s difficult club to manage, people must surely agree?

Let’s face it, Everton need a good Scotsman in all senses of the term. ;-)

It appears that article writers on here are giving the club all the excuses they need not to do business.
Let them tell you that we have no money, don't do it for them.! I get really exasperated at people just accepting this drivel every season while every other club does something to strengthen their squads for the run in.
WE HAVE BIGGER GATES AND FINISH HIGHER THAN MOST OTHERS !!!! So I do not accept we can do nothing !

All of our board members are millionnaires and multi millionnaires but none of them dip their hands in to help this club progress.
Other owners do and thats the rub !
Sir John Moores did and we won the title.
If they speculated a bit the fans would be happy and if we won a fourth place the club would prosper.
Please stop just accepting the no money excuse, if clubs below us can buy players then so can we.
We make more money every season than the vast majority of other clubs.
We have emptied out most of our top earners.
We loan out more than we loan in.
These are facts.

Slightly off on a tangent I accept, but I heard a statistic yesterday that the figure mentioned above, is what Randy Lerner has given his managers in a three year period.

I am setting myself up for a fall here, but without doing any research, I am pretty sure that Moyes has had nowhere near that amount at his disposal. If only he had a quarter of that money, I am sure he could put it to good use.

Our injuries (Mirallas, Gibson, Hibbert) together with loss of form (Jelavic, Pienaar and a few others if truth be told) are starting to tell. We need a win over West Brom and a new face or two to get things back on track.

Other than that, a great weekend. Now let's show that red shower how to dispose of Oldham.

ps: Man Utd another home draw??? Probably have the final at Old Trafford just to keep everybody happy.

Even when our board provides no money we still cry poverty and look for cheap stop gaps and hope that the manager keeps our heads above water. No other club was after Hahnemann, McFadden and Hitzlsperger so why were they employed? We continually shop were there is no competition and pick from left overs. It is not good enough for a club which is always in the top ten and has good gates every week.

For the first time in years we have a really competitive first eleven but we have no bench to support the first team. All the top teams have injuries at this time of the season but they have equally good reserves.

This board of millionaires MUST help DM to add impetus to the chase for top four position as they are an embarrassment to the posts they hold. I don't want to see blame attached wrongly: blame the organ grinder not the monkey!!

Until the Board add ambition to their survival strategy, things will never change... although the same thing could be said about the manager, I guess!

In that time our debt position has worsened, we have liquidated as many assets as possible to fund the business, and have been dependent on selling on our best players to fund team development - a team that is now approaching in average age terms what the manager inherited when he took over.

I think it's fair to say the Board haven't performed to their best on this. And yet still they wait for a massive pay day as a "reward" for their efforts.

This board are not stupid enough to give their detractors more ammunition to use against them. They know quite well if Moyes goes, even the most ardent supporter of BK ( stop laughing, there are some left ) will realise they are completely out of their depth running this club.

They have seen the articles, outlining the new TV money next season, and Moyes himself is actually playing a game with his employers.

It is in the public domain he has requested funds to freshen the squad, who could actually support the board if Moyes left, knowing it was because BK and friends refused to advance the cost of wages for a short-term loan deal?

Let's give the board some credit, they have manged to fool the majority of blues for years now, they not about to suddenly show their true colours, for the sake of a loan deal or two for the next 6 months.

You will see a breaking news headline on the official website on Friday morning, with two foreign imports who haven't a clue where they are in the world, holding up a shirt with their name on.

BUT I don't want to see any Lucas Neils, Hahnemanns or McFaddens being given short term jobs as bench warmers.

I take a lot of stick for saying this but I believe that many are now accepting it. We are broke, our business model is to sell to survive, buy cheap, pay low and develop as much of our own talent as possible. That is our lot and we are doing amazingly well considering. We are not Liverpool or United, the satisfaction that we have to take from our football is that we can compete with them despite having nothing like their financial clout. We are extremely unlikely now ever to win trophies but we can still be proud of both our team and our club. It has been grossly mismanaged for decades now and the payback time has come.

Leroy #Fer is an athletic dynamic midfielder with great skills! He plays for the Dutch national team and will make #Everton stronger. #COYB

Moyes is totally correct in winding everyone up, because:
a) Harry Redknapp can't jump in to snatch anyone from his grasp
b) It hopefully puts the asking price down when he cries that he is poor
c) It continues to baffle the idiotic and clueless media
d) He's a canny Scot

Be thankful that he is as good at telling wee fibs and will therefore take advantage of any opportunity he gets. I bet he has had this planned out for weeks, if not months. Ha!

Good on yer!